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ANOTHER JOURNALIST KILLED

Eleven days after journalist Misuel Tamayo Hernández was found dead in a motel room in Zihuatanejo in the Mexican state of Guerrero, another journalist has been killed, report the Inter American Press Association (IAPA), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF).

José Manuel Nava Sánchez was found stabbed to death in his apartment in Mexico City on 16 November 2006. According to the police, a laptop computer and other belongings were missing. Nava Sánchez, 53, had been editor of the daily newspaper "Excélsior" from February 2002 to December 2005, when it was sold to Grupo Imagen. Prior to that, he was the newspaper's Washington, D.C. correspondent for 16 years.

Nava Sánchez had recently authored a book, "Excélsior, el asalto final" ("Excélsior, the Final Assault"), in which he criticised the sale of the newspaper, saying it had been done in conditions of "extreme irregularity," according to IAPA. Until the sale, "Excélsior" had been run by its journalists and employees as a cooperative.

Five journalists have been killed in Mexico so far this year, says IAPA. They include Jaime Arturo Olvera Bravo, Enrique Perea Quintanilla, Ramiro Téllez Contreras, Bradley Will and Misael Tamayo Hernández. Another two - Rafael Ortiz Martínez and Alfredo Jiménez Mota - are missing

Visit these links:
- IAPA: http://www.sipiapa.org/pressreleases/chronologicaldetail.cfm?PressReleaseID=1799
- CPJ: http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/americas/mexico17nov06na.html
- RSF: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=19794
- IFJ: http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?Index=4385&Language=EN